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Informationen zum Autor P. Vidhyasekaran Klappentext The most effective! economic! and environmentally sound approach of managing crop disease in today's world is by breeding crops resistant to disease. The Handbook of Molecular Technologies in Crop Disease Management provides a top-to-bottom detailed view of crops! from their molecular level to ways to manipulate a higher resistance to disease through breeding. This comprehensive! single-source reference text covers the entire field of molecular breeding! transgenic technology! molecular plant pathology! and molecular disease diagnostics! presenting it all in clear! understandable language. The book contains an extensive bibliography and provides several tables and figures to clearly reinforce crucial points. Zusammenfassung Breeding crops resistant to disease is an effective approach to managing crop disease. This book provides a detailed view of crops, from their molecular level to ways to manipulate a higher resistance to disease through breeding. It also covers molecular breeding, transgenic technology, molecular plant pathology and molecular disease diagnostics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface , Chapter 1. Molecular Diagnostic Technology , Introduction , Importance of Disease Diagnosis Technologies , Visual Diagnosis , Digitally Assisted Diagnosis , Diagnosis by Culturing Pathogen , Immunodiagnosis , Nucleic Acid-Based Diagnosis Technologies , Diagnosis of Fungal Diseases , Diagnosis of Viral Diseases , Diagnosis of Bacterial Diseases , Diagnosis of Phytoplasma Diseases , Diagnosis of Viroid Diseases , Conclusion , Chapter 2. Molecular-Assisted Qualitative and Quantitative Resistance Breeding and Gene Pyramiding Technologies , Introduction , Types of Disease Resistance Genes , Molecular Characterization of Resistance Genes , Clustering of Resistance Genes , Expression of Resistance Genes , Qualitative Resistance Breeding Using Different Major Genes , Molecular Markers , Selection of Major Genes for Qualitative Resistance Breeding , Importance of Background Genotypes in Qualitative Resistance Breeding , Breakdown of Qualitative Resistance , Molecular-Marker-Assisted Technologies for Pyramiding of Genes , Quantitative Resistance Breeding , Epistasic Effect of QLTs , Pyramiding of Genes for Quantitative Resistance , Durable Resistance , Conclusion , Chapter 3. Transgenic Technology , Introduction , Transgenic Plants Expressing Genes from the Plant Kingdom , Transgenic Plants Expressing Fungal Genes , Transgenic Plants Expressing Bacterial Genes , Transgenic Plants Expressing Plant Viral Genes , Transgenic Plants Expressing Insect Virus Genes , Transgenic Plants Expressing Fungal Virus Genes , Transgenic Plants Expressing Bacteriophage Genes , Transgenic Plants Expressing Insect Genes , Transgenic Plants Expressi...
